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Excerpt from Analytics of Literature: A Manual for the Objective Study of English Prose and Poetry
With a little theorizing, the results just described were seen to be in no way either singular or remarkable. They were simply what they should be, and just such as had been and were being achieved abundantly elsewhere. Twenty years ago the college study of Physics and Chemistry consisted of recitations in assigned pages from a text-book, just as in Greek Grammar and Metaphysics. At times the students were called together to witness experiments carried on by the professor, while the class remained on the other side of the laboratory table. Of course this instruction, if of some value to the best scholars, who could by imagination supplement' and deepen the impressions derived, was of no use to slower minds, - we can all see why. It assumed that it was possible to make the laboratory experiences of the instructor answer for the laboratory experiences of the student. Little by little this assump tion has been given up. Not only Physics and Chemistry and Botany, but also zoology and Geology, and, following their lead, History and Economics and Psychology, have gone over from theoretical and dogmatic to experimental modes of teaching. The results have more than justified the change. Plodding, ungifted students, by taking pains, and by being led through all the con secutive processes, have been enabled to acquire the scientific consciousness like their betters, and, indeed, to become practically just as good analysts and electricians and assayers as their in structors themselves. It is no longer a question of gifts or genius, except in theoretical lines and in dealing with unsolved problems. Science has, in its method of substituting experiments and expe riences for second-hand knowledge, found a means of bridging the chasm between exceptionally endowed and mediocre minds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
